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Only stayed for a metalfinishing lecture, much to the prof's owliness but I was already getting the "imminent sinus migraine" blue flash in the corner of my eye.

Came home and slept 6 hours.

Studied.

Wrote.

6 pages and one short scenelet and wrap up. RUn through for continuity. run through for typos. Baddabing done.

Title: Shattering the Grey.

( and I'll explain it in the am. brain fried.

Tuesday's song: South, Ego likeness. Love these two, and their music and I sometimes forget to mow into all they have created.

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Got a lot of studio work done today. In awe of how quickly the place emptied out once class was over. I mean, whoa. Unsurprisingly, N, of the "never get anything done, and never get it on time because she does one file stroke every few minutes with profound contemplation", gone.

The casting class is an ABSOLUTELY NO LATES WHATSOEVER UNLESS WEASELS HAVE EATEN YER FEET sort of class. Yeah i can think of a few who will struggle.

Browsing devart for stock reference photos for my cover artists.

1. Why does that vamp look constipated?
2. Why drape your victim dramatically over some marble steps?
3. Why drape them SO painfully and unnaturally?
4. And why is your face so pale even after you've clearly devoured that person?
5. Why do half the "victims" look like they were accosted scrubbing the loo or washing the dog?
6. And blood's pretty hard to get out of velvet, you'd think.
7. and WHY is the female besotted with the vamp always crouching and hanging on his leg? leghumping?
8. why do the "bite" poses look so weirdly..stiff? You're in a trance, let go, you're a meatsack.
9. There's a few who look like people I know. Cannot even get over the weird.
10. I never figured someone would have to unhinge a jaw to bite. ( but brush your teeth, vlad.)
11. Dear, that mesh shirt and ratty jeans DO not signal "come bite me". Its "I can't decide if I'm going clubbing or going to clean the gutters but I'm prepared for anything."
12. What's with the weird cliche Dom/Sub stuff? You're spread eagled up against a wall. He's going for your neck not a patdown, sweetie. you're thinking of the TSA.
13.If you're going to do stock shots in your knickers, why pick the ugliest ones?
14. and why pose like you're back in HS improv drama class?

ah well. i did find a few things but some of it is "holy crap, that.... eegad."

I never understood the whole "aggrovamp" thing. i get that it tweaks the whole human victorian theme of "well, I wasn't really throwing myself at them, I was....overcome!" and vampy going all "rawr obey!" but now that I think of it, it makes little sense from a vampire's survival to have food that you have to coerce into STAYING STILL. It'd be like eating live octopus.

Mind you, I think there's a few scenes where the whole vamp/mortal/predator/prey boundary gets mighty shifty in the book, which I think is fun. ( and yeah the goth isn't the vamp.) I think I approached it as the MC knows that if you go ravishing people and manipulating them, its not all that respectful to the source of that which keeps your immortality going. ( but then I never wrote them as having full on contempt for mortals, which i never understood. I can't remember a time where I felt contempt for my chicken sandwich for failing to live up to the superiority of me as a sentient being.)

Song for the day: Light Of Ages, Soil & Eclipse.